Alleged Serbian gangland killer held in Athens
A man wanted in Serbia for alleged participation in a string of gangland morders has been arrested in southern Athens, authorities said Tuesday.
A man wanted in Serbia for alleged participation in a string of gangland morders has been arrested in southern Athens, authorities said Tuesday.
Questions have risen over indications that the police’s Internal Affairs Division sent only part of the material it had collected in its investigation into a growing scandal over alleged fraud related to European Union farm subsidies to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).
Farmers protesting high production costs and delayed payments of subsidies briefly blocked a key highway in central Greece Tuesday, forcing motorists to make detours.
Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor is set to take over the most serious strands of an expanding illegal surveillance investigation, following a ruling by a single-judge misdemeanors court in Athens.
New files from an investigation by European prosecutors into a major farm subsidy scandal were forwarded to Parliament Tuesday, with the question of stripping two sitting lawmakers with the governing New Democracy party of their immunity from prosecution.
The Parliament’s Ethics Committee unanimously recommended on Tuesday lifting the immunity of 11 ruling New Democracy lawmakers whose names appear in a case file submitted by the European prosecutor as part of its investigation into Greece’s sprawling farm subsidy scam.
The strong seasonality of the Greek service sector and long-term weaknesses of the domestic labor market allow a few, mainly summer months to determine the final annual result regarding the hiring-layoff balance.
The unnatural emptiness of the Eleonas metro station, the one with the lowest daily passenger traffic in the entire network of Athens, is an image that may soon be a thing of the past.
Greek authorities are investigating a couple that checked their ailing infant out of a hospital in Rhodes, against medical advice.
France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle left Souda Bay in Crete on Tuesday, after spending six days moored at pier K-14 in Marathi for a scheduled refueling stop.